Taking Advantage of A Crisis To Ram Through Animal Identification
By: Doug Busselman, Excutive Vice President
There's nothing like a crisis (real or invented) to assist in forwarding an agenda. As part of the current effort to make the current voluntary National Animal Identification System something other than "voluntary" we're seeing some very heavy duty media coverage given to the topic. Here's a sample of how the present matter of the H1N1 virus as being a good reason for government to save us, if only we'd cooperate.
What's interesting is that the one case of actual livestock involvement with the virus is that it was a swine herd being infected by a human. Perhaps instead of animal identification for tracking things we should go with the approach of identifying people and their movement -- oh wait that's a different issue that government was going to be working on.
There's nothing like a crisis (real or invented) to assist in forwarding an agenda. As part of the current effort to make the current voluntary National Animal Identification System something other than "voluntary" we're seeing some very heavy duty media coverage given to the topic. Here's a sample of how the present matter of the H1N1 virus as being a good reason for government to save us, if only we'd cooperate.
What's interesting is that the one case of actual livestock involvement with the virus is that it was a swine herd being infected by a human. Perhaps instead of animal identification for tracking things we should go with the approach of identifying people and their movement -- oh wait that's a different issue that government was going to be working on.
Posted by Doug Busselman at 5/11/2009 2:20 PM 
Categories: National Animal Identification
Tags: H1N1 Virus NAIS Animal ID
Categories: National Animal Identification
Tags: H1N1 Virus NAIS Animal ID
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